Each hostess of the country area dreams that she has a constantly flowering garden. To do this, many women spend almost all free time at the cottage and try to grow beautiful flowers, create interesting flower beds and rocaria. To navigate which flowers it is worth landing to provide long-term flowering in the warm season, it is necessary to study the properties of many plants. At this moment, the whole years leave, and so you want to grow faster in the country the beautiful flowers and admire lush and long blossom.
Surely many households of country sites are familiar with the majority of beautiful plant plants. Today we will talk about unpretentious flower - Alissum. We also learn how to grow Alissaum yourself.
This flower has an unusual name. If you disassemble this Greek word in parts, then the following "no dog rabies" is obtained. Perhaps in ancient Greece with the help of this beautiful flower, people tried to cure rabies in dogs. There are no such data in any source, so it remains only to assume.
Alyssum is an annual plant. In the people you can hear another name of the flower - "Pump" or "Sea Lobulia". In nature there are about 100 species of plants. Motherland Alissa is considered Africa, Asia, North America and Europe. Alissaum is growing in Russia. As a garden culture, this gentle flower is known not so long ago, but despite this, every year its popularity increases. The Alissaum refers to unpretentious plants, it is easy to grow, just to care, and beautiful bloom and gentle honey fragrance attracts bees and creates a unique atmosphere of home comfort in the garden.
Look at the photo, how beautiful the flowers of Alissum can be:
Alissaum refers to low plants, literally covers each centimeter of the soil and beautifully "falls". Plant height from 15 to 45 cm. The shoots strongly, slightly oblong, leaves of oval form. Flowers in Alissum are small, preferably bright shades. There are varieties of this beautiful plant with bright colors - juicy raspberry, red and purple shades, as well as gentle yellow and pink. Flowers are collected in small brushes. The plant begins to bloom in the end of spring and flows in autumn with the onset of frosts. If we provide all the proper conditions, then the flowering period can be accelerated, and the duration to increase. Some varieties of plants can continue flowering even after the first frosts.
Growing Alissum
This flower prefers stony soils. The plant loves light, it is resistant to a hot climate, so it can be grown in the southern part of the country. Alyssums are not terrible heat and drought. In the region with a harsh winter climate of the plant, it is not necessary to plant on open areas, but to provide a light half. So that the plants keep their frost resistance, it is necessary to choose the right place - the sunlight should always fall on the plant.
In the rest of the Alissa, they are not capricious, they are well withstanding drafts, perfectly grow on rocky soil next door to large boulders and other plants.
If you decide to grow these beautiful flowers with honey aroma on your site, then you need to properly prepare the soil. It should not be raw, too dense and heavy. Annual or perennial representatives of Alissum will equally feel well in the light soils generously enriched with fertilizers. This is necessary to achieve brightness of colors.
Soil acidity can be slightly alkaline or neutral.
How to grow alissum from seeds
If you are interested, and you want to sprout these flowers from seed yourself, then reserve the patience and everything you need for cultivation.
You can grow alissums from seeds in two ways:
- Especially.
- Without growing seedlings.
Seed seeds can be directly in the soil (in May, when the Earth warms well) to a depth of no more than 1.5 cm. It is generously sow, since the seeds are so tiny that it is impossible to land separately. Therefore, after the first friendly shoots, it is necessary to dispel the seedlings well. If you put alissum in this way, then bloom can be expected almost at the end of the summer. If you want to admire the spring blossom of Alissum, then it is necessary to sow seeds in the fall. Optimal time for landing - November. Just in the winter, the seeds are strengthened, weak will die and spring will appear shoots of strong plants, which will bloom at one time, that is, already in May.
How to grow flowers from seedlings
Most of the flower products have already been determined with the methods of growing colors. Many prefer a method for reproduction of alissums with seedlings. To do this, you need to buy a special soil for growing seedlings, it should be a light mixture with a low percentage of lime (pH 5.5). The soil is placed in a box for seedlings, top above the seeds are not very thick and sprinkled with the earth. You can do otherwise and just gently press seeds to the soil so that they are slightly "drowning".
When creating favorable conditions for growing, you can get a strong seedlings. So, it is necessary to create proper lighting for alissums and the so-called greenhouse conditions. To do this, simply take a tight film or glass and cover our seeds. Withstand a certain temperature mode - from +10 to +15 oC, with light soil moisture and timely ventilation.
After 7 days it is worth expecting the first shoots. Sometimes, if all conditions are created for a favorable growth, then shoots may appear before. As soon as you see the first real leaflet from Alissum, it's time to enter feeding. For these purposes, complex fertilizers are used.
The optimal age for picking seedlings is 2-3 sheets, but if shoots grow together and quickly, it is not possible to peer seedlings, since the strong seedlings are immediately planted into the prepared soil.
Landing seedlings. What to pay attention to
The seedlings grown in this way can be planted in an open soil in the late spring or with the onset of summer. Alyssums will not be afraid of return freezers.
For landing it is necessary to choose a suitable place - the plot must be solar, the soil is dry and drained, neutral or weakly alkaline with a large content of humus. It will be good to feel a plant on an open, well-lit clearing, between stone slabs or blocks of stones.
Planting seedlings:
- Taking into account the fact that Alissums quickly grow up, it is necessary to plant seedlings at a great distance. The optimal option is 40 cm from each other. This is all conditional, because depending on the variety and type of plant, the landing conditions may differ.
- Prepare in advance pits for seedlings, taking into account the fact that it should be a little more than the rhizome itself (plus an earthen com).
- Having planting plants. It is important to stick to the rules: strongly shuffle the flowers are not necessary.
- After planting seedlings, it must be immediately ridiched, only very neatly, under the ground.
- If you sit down the flowers on the flower, then when the bushes grow a little worse, they can be seeded. For this, gently divide the plants and disembark elsewhere.
- After 7 weeks from the moment the first germs appeared (when growing from seeds), it is worth expecting first flowering.
How to care for alissum
As you already understood, if you do everything right, then there should be no special problems with growing seedlings from seeds and planting plants in the ground. You can cope in the landing of Alissaums in just half an hour. Just just and care for the plant. Alussums are unpretentious in care, the main thing is to timely remove the weary grass, trim and feed the plants.
Watering Alissum
Watering flowers is preferably regularly, and in the hot season - often and abundantly. Due to the lack of moisture, the Alissum can bloom badly, leaves will go into growth, but the buds and flowers can reset. Given this rule, it is necessary to prepare the soil in advance before planting and ensure good drainage. Fluid stagnation in the root system Flowers are not transferred. The plant can fade and shoes soon.
How to understand whether the moisture is needed by Alissums or wipe the plants too early? Look at the soil if it is dry from above - this is not a reason for watering. Take the shovel and recover once, at a depth of 3 cm you will see the state of the soil. If it is dry, then you need to start a rich watering, if more moisturized - watering can be postponed.
After the soil is moistened, you can begin to combat weeds, just a weed grass will be well removed from the wet soil. Between the bushes of the plant, the Earth needs to be well exploded. If during the spring planting seedlings you mulched the soil, then you will fight the weeds much easier, but you still have to loosen the land.
Fertilizer Alissum
A few words about fertilizers. To achieve beautiful bright flowering, it is necessary to fertilize the Alissa. We can say that they love feeding. When only the growth of green mass begins, perennials can be filled with nitrogen fertilizer. For example, use "Agrikol-7". Take 1 tbsp. Fertilizers and urea, spread in 10 liters of water. Before flowering, you can enter any comprehensive fertilizer.
Annual alissum should be fed more often - at least 4 times per season. The first time to make fertilizer should be immediately before the flowering itself, when buds have already been formed. Next, the feedback frequency can be adjusted independently. With regular making fertilizers, Alissum will delight you with their lush and bright flowering.
Crawling Alissum
To ensure full growth and abundant blossom of Alissum, it is necessary to know that the plants are important in time to trim. This should be done not only at a certain time, but also for all the rules. So, in the spring time, if you grow perennial plants, you need to remove the flowerons since last year. You should also save the Alissaum from dry and sick shoots, remove dry leaves. After flowering in the summer season, you also need to free the plant from dry branches, leaves and colors. In the summer, it is advisable to shorten shoots by 8 cm, just this will push the re-blossom of Alissum. In addition, over the summer bushes, the plants will grow strongly, and in the flower bed they will look unattractive, the pruning will just decide this problem.
Fighting pests
Alissaum refers to hardy plants, rarely sick and amazed by pests. But if unfavorable conditions for cultivation are created, then as a result of the mooring of the soil, such a disease may appear as bright rot, then the plant will lose resistance to such diseases: malievable dew, jaundice, viral mosaic.
Dangerous pests for Alissum - cabbage flea. It is very difficult to remove it. It is possible to complete expulsion only as follows: in 10 liters of water, it is necessary to dilute 1 tbsp of acetic essence and process adult plants.
The caterpillars can also harm the caterpillars, it is possible to get rid of them from them by processing the bushes with a decoction of pharmacy chamomile or tobacco mixture with a household soap.
When it is better to collect seeds
You can already begin the collection of seeds for further reproduction of Alissums with the onset of autumn. The optimal time is the end of September, the first week of October.
Choose a dry day, without wind. Take the sheet or bedspread, spread in the yard and hands gently overlay the flowers of Alissum. As a result, mechanical friction will be superfluous, only seeds will remain. They need to be collected and dried in a well-ventilated room (only without draft!). Dry seeds for storage can be folded into fabric bags.
If you did not have time and did the seed collection period, there is still time to return everything. Take advantage of a broom to seed a seed from under the Alissum bush. Then you need to remove the land and trash, dry the seeds and store in a dry place.
Interestingly, but if everything is done correctly, the Alissaum will feel beautifully and even retain the green leaflets. Next to the plant is needed to paint the snow to get a good snowdrift. That's all if the winter is not too harsh, then the plant successfully pumps.
Popular varieties of plants
Alyssum Sea.
Sea lobulory or sea alissum. The plant is perennial, grows exclusively in the warm climate, reaches a height from 8 to 40 cm. Beautifully sprinkled on the ground, forming a floral carpet from small fluffy bushes with silver fleece leaves. Flowers are small, with a pronounced aroma of honey. There are white and purple flowers in nature. A lot of alissum varieties with pink, red and lilac flowers with flowers are derived. Blossom starts in spring and ends in autumn.
Alissaum Golden
Spherical bush, whose stalks are practically stealing on the ground. The leaves of Alissum are narrow, flowers are bright, yellow shades, assemble into dense brushes. It looks good on the rocky terrain.
Alyssum Snow Carpet
Herbate annual plant. It grows no more than 15 cm in height. Differs in small flowers of different color, which are collected in small inflorescences. Because of this feature, the plant and got such a name.
Seeds are evisted from April to June. Blooming begins in June and continues until late autumn. To ensure continuous flowering, dry inflorescences must be removed in a timely manner.
Alyssum Skal
A perennial plant, height reaches 30 cm. Grows the bushes, the diameter of the hemisphere to 40 cm. Stems branched, leaves, like felt, slightly oblong. Leaves can be preserved on the bush even after wintering. Flowers at the rocky alissum yellow, petals with notches. Duration of flowering within 40 days, can bloom re-at the end of summer.
Start a discussion ...